Carole Angier and Sally Cline: The Arvon Book of Life Writing: Writing Biography, Autobiography and Memoir, 3rd February 2010

At our very first Salon, Angier and Cline discussed their forthcoming
book, which is based on a week-long residential writing workshop they
teach, and posed some challenging questions about where the author’s
loyalty should lie when writing about themselves and others.

Carole Angier is the biographer
of Jean Rhys and Primo Levi. She teaches life writing at Birkbeck College,
London University, and works as a one-to-one mentor with emerging writers.

Sally Cline is the author of 10
non-fiction books, including three biographies on Radclyffe Hall, Zelda
Fitzgerald and (forthcoming) Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. She
is Writer-in-Residence for Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, where
she mentors their MA in Creative Writing.

This book grew out of a life-writing
course taught by Carole Angier and Sally Cline for the Arvon Foundation's
week-long residential writing course. It features 32 pieces by such
prominent guest writers as Hilary Spurling, Janet Malcolm and Victoria
Glendinning. It is the first of a series of Arvon books discussing the
art of writing in different genres.